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University of Southern California
VOL. LXII
NO. 52
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970
Photo by Mike Parfit
SAXOPHONE SLIM AND HIS GOOD TIME BAND AT ANTI-UNION RALLY
While the band played, a man with a megaphone urged employees to “show the old USC spirit” and to vote no
MECHA INVOLVEMENT
Union meetings planned
MECHA. the campus Chicano organization, has reacted to the university's policy of actively campaigning against unionization while not allowing union representatives on-campus access to campus employes by planning two pro-union meetings of its own set for today.
The first meeting was scheduled for 6:30 a.m.; and the second for 8:30 p.m. at the Newman Center in an effort to give the university's maintenance workers the union s case. These are the times that most of the maintenance workers end their working day and arrive at work.
The union. Local 399 of the Service & Hospital Employes Union, AFL-CIO, has been working to unionize the custodians and groundsmen for several weeks. An election
to determine whether or not it will win the right to represent the 250 employees will be held tomorrow from 5 to 7 a.m.
The controversy over the university's policy in this matter arose when the Daily Trojan reported a pro-union rally held on campus Monday night. University spokesmen denied that the university sponsored the rally, rather they admitted the university allowed “employees who are strongly opposed to the union” to use the area.
However, campus officials have kicked union representatives off campus on numerous occasions while they were trying to talk to workers about the union, said Max Richardson, a spokesman for the union.
MECHA members have agreed to pass out literature and talk to workers about the
union as they sign in and out of work at the Custodial Services building at 943 W. 35th St. Then the MECHA members will invite the workers to go to the Newman Center, 3207 S. University Ave. to informally meet with union representatives.
Richardson said the union will emphasize that its legal aid services are available. He said many of the workers are afraid to support the union because they think the university would take punitive action if they did.
He charged that at the end of last week a foreman went around to talk to the janitors and told them that if the union won, they would be deported.
“The employer is trying to divide the house and we know a divided house will fall down,’’ Richardson said.
Byrd to stand trial for false bomb threat charges
By MICHELE DRAKE
Following a decision made at the preliminary hearing yesterday, Glenn Byrd, a student, will stand trial for charges of three counts of false bomb threats.
An arraignment will be held in early January to set the trial date.
Byrd, a freshman, was represented by his attorney, James D. Spivey.
The prosecution was handled by district attorney John Bellamy.
Byrd, who was arrested Nov. 13 following police investigation, is free on $1,250 bail.
The prosecution called in several witnesses in an attempt to establish that Byrd telephoned three bomb threats. Included were switchboard operators receiving the calls.
John Montgomery, switchboard dispatcher, received the first threat against the women s complex at 2:08 a.m. on Sept. 30.
Operators Irene Brandt and Margaret Johnson said they received the other calls on Oct. 28 at 7:30p.m and Nov. 4 at 10:45a.m.
The Nov. 4 call, threatening Waite Phillips Hall, was the third call and confirmed earlier suspicions police had.
Hazel McKeighen. who has been USC's chief operator for 30 years, testified that she instructed the morning operator on duty to lock in the call. She explained that this involves leaving the cord plugged into the switchboard so that the connection is not broken. The call can then be traced to the location on campus.
The Nov. 4 call was the only one in which this
lock-in technique was used, she testified.
Florence Finley, the operator on duty the afternoon of Nov. 4. said she saw a flashing light on the locked in line indicating the party originally calling was trying to place a second call.
Upon attempting to assist the party, Mrs. Finley said the male voice gave his identity as Glenn and his location as Trojan Hall, Room 254.
Sgt. Rudy Ticer, the Southwest Division police detective who made the arrest, testified he first attempted to locate Byrd at 8 a.m. on Nov. 12 in his dorm room.
Byrd answered the door identifying himself as his roommate. Clark Adams, Ticer said. He was sent to look for Byrd in the dining room.
Upon returning to the dorm room, Ticer found that Byrd had left. His roommate was questioned as a possible suspect at that time.
Ticer and R. R. Van Drew, a fellow officer, returned on Nov. 13 at 7:30 a.m. to arrest Bvrd.
Byrd initially denied having made the calls, Ticer said, but he later signed a confession on his way to police headquarters.
The defendant said his reason for placing the first call was curiosity. Ticer said. Byrd wanted to see if he had the power to evacuate the women's complex. Ticer added.
Not being prepared for a history exam was Byrd's reason for threatening Phillips Hall on Nov. 4. Ticer said.
Ticer testified that Byrd also volunteered for a polygraph examination at the time of the investigation.
BYU protest set Friday
By RIVIAN TAYLOR
Associate City Editor
Amid resolutions earlier this week from both the ASSC and the Black Students’ Union calling for the cancellation of Friday evening's basketball game with Brigham Young University, President John Hubbard yesterday announced that the game will be played.
In response to this decision, the ASSC and the BSU have called for a rally and demonstration during the game. Both student organizations have invited all students to meet at a rally in front of Tommy Trojan at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The gathered students will then proceed to the Sports Arena and hold a demonstration outside the USC entrance to the arena. BSU spokesmen said.
In President Hubbard's written statement he gave an explanation for why the game will be played as scheduled. He said the university’s sport schedules are made by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics on a basis of athletic competition.
“The established athletic scheduling practice is to engage in competition with accredited colleges and universities that are members of the NCAA and who abide by NCAA rules and regulations," the statement read. “The athletic department does not evaluate the schools it schedules using criteria other than athletic ones like level of competition and spectator interest/'
President Hubbard also said in his written statement that he was acting on the understanding that Coach Bob Boyd had discussed the game with his players and as of Tuesday afternoon all the basketball players had said they would play in Friday ’s game.
Henry Blackburn, president of the BSU, told the Daily Trojan that the BSU plans to meet with several black athletes this morning to discuss the situation. Both the BSU’s resolution, as did the ASSC's, called for the members of the USC team to refuse to play in the game if the university did not cancel it.
Yesterday, the Trojan Young Democrats passed a resolution in favor of these two points, as well as the third point of urging the student body to attend the game and demonstrate “their contempt for racism.”
This type of pre-game controversy is nothing new to universities scheduled to play BYU athletic teams. BYU is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which declares that no black may enter the Mormon priesthood.
Mark Thompson, a spokesman in BYU’s university relations department and a BYU undergraduate, said the university was supported by the Mormon Church because the church supplied 50 percent of the school's funding.
Ed Butterworth, president of BYU has stated that there is no racial discrimination at BYU—no more than at any other campus, Thompson said.
Thompson said this year there has been almost no talk on his campus about the racial situation revolving around intercollegiate events.
“Last year, though, it was a very heavy subject,” said Thompson. He referred to BYU's game against Colorado State last year where blacks demonstrated at half time. “It really got a little gross with lugwrenches being thrown.” he said. “But there was no major damage and no one was hurt with the exception of a few bumped heads.”
Coach Boyd said the game will go on, demonstration or no demonstration. “That’s their right to peacefully demonstrate,” he said. *“We’re playing basketball and we don’t relate to political, racial or personal overtones. ”
In an open letter to the student body, the BSU said:
“The Black Students' Union is calling upon all USC students to join us in demonstrating our contempt for Brigham Young University and USC’s continued relations with this institution.
“We believe that there is no way that BYU’s athletic teams can be separated from the racist Mormon religion that dominates and controls the institution and the state of Utah. Just as USC teams represent this school when they play, BYU teams represent that institution.
“On numerous occasions students have asked, “What can I do to fight racism?” Here is a clear cut instance of racism. There is no doubt about it. We believe that if the USC students are sincere about relating to the community and are committed to fighting racism, which is an obvious fact at BYU, they will support the BSU and the ASSC in demonstrating against the playing of the game Friday.
“The Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) say through their religion that black people are not spiritually ready to enter “heaven” and are thus ineligible to enter the higher eschelons of the church. We do not believe that BYU is spiritually ready to enter the black communicy with such a racist ideology.
“We have talked with administrators in an attempt to exhaust all the “proper” channels. We have been told that the university would be “embarrassed” if it cancelled the game. We as black students are continually embarrassed by racist acts of this university in our community.
“We believe enough words have been spoken and we have educated enough. It's time to take some positive action. When an issue of human justice, or the lack of it, is as clear cut as this we can only believe that those students who do not back this move are typical of the racism that is dominant in Amerika and should be dealt with as such.
“We are calling upon USC students to show the same type of concern for this issue, which is confronting us directly, that was shown for Indochina. 10.0C0 miles away, during the Days of Concern last May."

University of Southern California
VOL. LXII
NO. 52
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970
Photo by Mike Parfit
SAXOPHONE SLIM AND HIS GOOD TIME BAND AT ANTI-UNION RALLY
While the band played, a man with a megaphone urged employees to “show the old USC spirit” and to vote no
MECHA INVOLVEMENT
Union meetings planned
MECHA. the campus Chicano organization, has reacted to the university's policy of actively campaigning against unionization while not allowing union representatives on-campus access to campus employes by planning two pro-union meetings of its own set for today.
The first meeting was scheduled for 6:30 a.m.; and the second for 8:30 p.m. at the Newman Center in an effort to give the university's maintenance workers the union s case. These are the times that most of the maintenance workers end their working day and arrive at work.
The union. Local 399 of the Service & Hospital Employes Union, AFL-CIO, has been working to unionize the custodians and groundsmen for several weeks. An election
to determine whether or not it will win the right to represent the 250 employees will be held tomorrow from 5 to 7 a.m.
The controversy over the university's policy in this matter arose when the Daily Trojan reported a pro-union rally held on campus Monday night. University spokesmen denied that the university sponsored the rally, rather they admitted the university allowed “employees who are strongly opposed to the union” to use the area.
However, campus officials have kicked union representatives off campus on numerous occasions while they were trying to talk to workers about the union, said Max Richardson, a spokesman for the union.
MECHA members have agreed to pass out literature and talk to workers about the
union as they sign in and out of work at the Custodial Services building at 943 W. 35th St. Then the MECHA members will invite the workers to go to the Newman Center, 3207 S. University Ave. to informally meet with union representatives.
Richardson said the union will emphasize that its legal aid services are available. He said many of the workers are afraid to support the union because they think the university would take punitive action if they did.
He charged that at the end of last week a foreman went around to talk to the janitors and told them that if the union won, they would be deported.
“The employer is trying to divide the house and we know a divided house will fall down,’’ Richardson said.
Byrd to stand trial for false bomb threat charges
By MICHELE DRAKE
Following a decision made at the preliminary hearing yesterday, Glenn Byrd, a student, will stand trial for charges of three counts of false bomb threats.
An arraignment will be held in early January to set the trial date.
Byrd, a freshman, was represented by his attorney, James D. Spivey.
The prosecution was handled by district attorney John Bellamy.
Byrd, who was arrested Nov. 13 following police investigation, is free on $1,250 bail.
The prosecution called in several witnesses in an attempt to establish that Byrd telephoned three bomb threats. Included were switchboard operators receiving the calls.
John Montgomery, switchboard dispatcher, received the first threat against the women s complex at 2:08 a.m. on Sept. 30.
Operators Irene Brandt and Margaret Johnson said they received the other calls on Oct. 28 at 7:30p.m and Nov. 4 at 10:45a.m.
The Nov. 4 call, threatening Waite Phillips Hall, was the third call and confirmed earlier suspicions police had.
Hazel McKeighen. who has been USC's chief operator for 30 years, testified that she instructed the morning operator on duty to lock in the call. She explained that this involves leaving the cord plugged into the switchboard so that the connection is not broken. The call can then be traced to the location on campus.
The Nov. 4 call was the only one in which this
lock-in technique was used, she testified.
Florence Finley, the operator on duty the afternoon of Nov. 4. said she saw a flashing light on the locked in line indicating the party originally calling was trying to place a second call.
Upon attempting to assist the party, Mrs. Finley said the male voice gave his identity as Glenn and his location as Trojan Hall, Room 254.
Sgt. Rudy Ticer, the Southwest Division police detective who made the arrest, testified he first attempted to locate Byrd at 8 a.m. on Nov. 12 in his dorm room.
Byrd answered the door identifying himself as his roommate. Clark Adams, Ticer said. He was sent to look for Byrd in the dining room.
Upon returning to the dorm room, Ticer found that Byrd had left. His roommate was questioned as a possible suspect at that time.
Ticer and R. R. Van Drew, a fellow officer, returned on Nov. 13 at 7:30 a.m. to arrest Bvrd.
Byrd initially denied having made the calls, Ticer said, but he later signed a confession on his way to police headquarters.
The defendant said his reason for placing the first call was curiosity. Ticer said. Byrd wanted to see if he had the power to evacuate the women's complex. Ticer added.
Not being prepared for a history exam was Byrd's reason for threatening Phillips Hall on Nov. 4. Ticer said.
Ticer testified that Byrd also volunteered for a polygraph examination at the time of the investigation.
BYU protest set Friday
By RIVIAN TAYLOR
Associate City Editor
Amid resolutions earlier this week from both the ASSC and the Black Students’ Union calling for the cancellation of Friday evening's basketball game with Brigham Young University, President John Hubbard yesterday announced that the game will be played.
In response to this decision, the ASSC and the BSU have called for a rally and demonstration during the game. Both student organizations have invited all students to meet at a rally in front of Tommy Trojan at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The gathered students will then proceed to the Sports Arena and hold a demonstration outside the USC entrance to the arena. BSU spokesmen said.
In President Hubbard's written statement he gave an explanation for why the game will be played as scheduled. He said the university’s sport schedules are made by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics on a basis of athletic competition.
“The established athletic scheduling practice is to engage in competition with accredited colleges and universities that are members of the NCAA and who abide by NCAA rules and regulations," the statement read. “The athletic department does not evaluate the schools it schedules using criteria other than athletic ones like level of competition and spectator interest/'
President Hubbard also said in his written statement that he was acting on the understanding that Coach Bob Boyd had discussed the game with his players and as of Tuesday afternoon all the basketball players had said they would play in Friday ’s game.
Henry Blackburn, president of the BSU, told the Daily Trojan that the BSU plans to meet with several black athletes this morning to discuss the situation. Both the BSU’s resolution, as did the ASSC's, called for the members of the USC team to refuse to play in the game if the university did not cancel it.
Yesterday, the Trojan Young Democrats passed a resolution in favor of these two points, as well as the third point of urging the student body to attend the game and demonstrate “their contempt for racism.”
This type of pre-game controversy is nothing new to universities scheduled to play BYU athletic teams. BYU is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which declares that no black may enter the Mormon priesthood.
Mark Thompson, a spokesman in BYU’s university relations department and a BYU undergraduate, said the university was supported by the Mormon Church because the church supplied 50 percent of the school's funding.
Ed Butterworth, president of BYU has stated that there is no racial discrimination at BYU—no more than at any other campus, Thompson said.
Thompson said this year there has been almost no talk on his campus about the racial situation revolving around intercollegiate events.
“Last year, though, it was a very heavy subject,” said Thompson. He referred to BYU's game against Colorado State last year where blacks demonstrated at half time. “It really got a little gross with lugwrenches being thrown.” he said. “But there was no major damage and no one was hurt with the exception of a few bumped heads.”
Coach Boyd said the game will go on, demonstration or no demonstration. “That’s their right to peacefully demonstrate,” he said. *“We’re playing basketball and we don’t relate to political, racial or personal overtones. ”
In an open letter to the student body, the BSU said:
“The Black Students' Union is calling upon all USC students to join us in demonstrating our contempt for Brigham Young University and USC’s continued relations with this institution.
“We believe that there is no way that BYU’s athletic teams can be separated from the racist Mormon religion that dominates and controls the institution and the state of Utah. Just as USC teams represent this school when they play, BYU teams represent that institution.
“On numerous occasions students have asked, “What can I do to fight racism?” Here is a clear cut instance of racism. There is no doubt about it. We believe that if the USC students are sincere about relating to the community and are committed to fighting racism, which is an obvious fact at BYU, they will support the BSU and the ASSC in demonstrating against the playing of the game Friday.
“The Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) say through their religion that black people are not spiritually ready to enter “heaven” and are thus ineligible to enter the higher eschelons of the church. We do not believe that BYU is spiritually ready to enter the black communicy with such a racist ideology.
“We have talked with administrators in an attempt to exhaust all the “proper” channels. We have been told that the university would be “embarrassed” if it cancelled the game. We as black students are continually embarrassed by racist acts of this university in our community.
“We believe enough words have been spoken and we have educated enough. It's time to take some positive action. When an issue of human justice, or the lack of it, is as clear cut as this we can only believe that those students who do not back this move are typical of the racism that is dominant in Amerika and should be dealt with as such.
“We are calling upon USC students to show the same type of concern for this issue, which is confronting us directly, that was shown for Indochina. 10.0C0 miles away, during the Days of Concern last May."